Uncooperative Housing
Patricia J. Williams
As our spanking-new era of optimism dawns, ask yourself, How integrated is your neighborhood?
Racism & Discrimination
2008
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Courage in Ohio
Connie Schultz : Unions
In a nation hungry for heroes on election day, blue-collar Ohio delivered.
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We, the People
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
America has a long way to go before we get to the "more perfect union" Obama promises. But the work has begun in earnest.
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AFL-CIO's Trumka on Racism and Obama
YouTube : Unions
Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'
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New Orleans Redraws Its Color Line
Lizzy Ratner : New Orleans
After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.
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Rebuilding New Orleans
Grit TV : Social & Economic Rights
Activist Judith Browne-Dianis explains why progressives should care about public housing.
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Jerome Corsi's Long, Strange Trip
Max Blumenthal : Presidential Election 2008
How a racist, conspiratorial crank became the Republican attack machine's anti-Obama point man.
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Tested, Tried, Untrue
Patricia J. Williams : Barack Obama
Critiques of Obama's suitability for the presidency are bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.
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Jesse Helms, American Bigot
Lisa Duggan : Conservatives & The American Right
In death it's easy to dismiss Jesse Helms as a colorful buffoon or a relic of the bad old days of segregation and sexism, but that doesn't do his bigotry justice.
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Did Race Win the Race for Hillary?
Gaiutra Bahadur : Pennsylvania
Does living in mixed communities make people less or more vulnerable to campaigning that plays on ethnic and racial divisions?
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House of Cards
Patricia J. Williams : Feminism & Women
It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
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Some Things Even Obama Can't Transcend
Gary Younge : Barack Obama
Before we can talk sensibly about transcending difference, we must first transform the conditions that give these differences meaning.
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'The Mississippi Challenge'
George Slaff : Civil Rights Movement
Black people in the state were "regularly and systematically" denied the vote by "intimidation, harassment, economic reprisal, property damage, terrorization, violence and illegal and unconstitutional registration procedures."
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Obama, Race and the Presidency
Ari Melber : Affirmative Action
Barack Obama's historic victory in Iowa comes at a crucial time for a nation still grappling with how remedies to offset racism affect America's power structure.
2007
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Stop the Subprime Tsunami
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : U.S. Economy
Predatory lending is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, especially for the black and brown people caught in its grip.
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Judging Thomas
A close look at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reveals a deeply conservative and increasingly bitter man.
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False Prophets
Patricia J. Williams : Science
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
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Thieves of Black History
Gary Younge : African-Americans
In the struggle over the ownership of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black history is on sale at bargain prices.
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It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
Barbara Ehrenreich : Feminism & Women
David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.
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Jena: Take Your Nooses Down
A schoolyard fight in Jena, Louisiana, fueled by hateful symbols of the Jim Crow era, prompted John Mellencamp to write this song. Watch the video.
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'Jena Is America'
Gary Younge : Civil Rights & Liberties
Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.
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The March on Jena
Mark Sorkin : Civil Rights & Liberties
Thousands of civil rights activists are heading to Louisiana this week to protest a case of gross injustice--and the system that supports racial inequality across America.
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Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia
Alexander Zaitchik & Mark Ames : Russia
Copying the tactics of terrorists, neo-Nazi groups are targeting reformers, progressives and ethnic minorities.
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Shouting Underwater
Two years ago, Katrina shed light on a harsh truth--we are all victims of a failed government.
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Sacco & Vanzetti Today
Moshik Temkin : Human Rights & Civil Liberties
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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